Preliminary results from Laguna Minucua: a potentially annually resolved record of climate and environmental change for the past ～5000 years in the Mixteca Alta of Oaxaca, Mexico

摘要

Despite several decades of research focusing on prehispanic human ecology, debate continues over the impact of climatic and anthropogenic landscape change on human populations in Mesoamerica. One problem in identifying the cause of this change is the lack of high-resolution paleo-environmental data from many regions. The southern Mexican highlands, in particular, have yielded few paleoenvironment data, yet have a rich and diverse cultural history.